Do we really need replacements for such simple rules as “Thou shalt not kill” and “Thou shalt not steal”?
Dave Huber at The College Fix has the story:
Atheists come up with their own ‘ten commandments’
John Figdor, the humanist chaplain at Stanford University, and his colleague Lex Bayer of AirBNB, have written a...
Instead, they’ll discuss “how to deal with controversial issues.”
From Inside Higher Ed:
MLA Will Discuss How to Deal With Controversial Issues
The Modern Language Association is planning at its Delegate Assembly early next month to discuss how to deal with controversial issues, but does not plan to vote either for or against the...
The college’s president says they must be “open to all points of view”, soon after removing an anti-racist KKK statue from campus. Hypocrisy? I don’t know the meaning of the word!
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
University of Iowa: We didn’t censor anti-racist statue, we protected ‘inclusiveness’
The University of...
Fifty years ago this was obvious to anyone with a brain, but somehow we’ve so degraded as a society that “Porn Hurts Couples” is now an actual headline.
Tony Perkins of Accuracy in Academia has the story:
Study: Pornography hurts Couples and Relationships
There are certain givens in life, things we take for granted...
The small group of activists also demanded a mandatory “Privilege Summit” and more “racially diverse” curriculum.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
College blocks Yik Yak following racial demands from a few dozen students
Augustana College, a private school in Illinois, gave the appearance of caving into a small band of...
Apparently, without a free place to hang their coat, there’s a significant risk of “young women freezing to death.”
Dave Huber at The College Fix has the story:
Oxford complaint: Cloakrooms should be free because hypothermia (or something)
The title possibly says it all: “Cloakrooms should be free...
Even women & minorities who have earned their PhDs are 55% less likely to pursue a career in research.
Dave Huber at The College Fix has the story:
Women and some minorities show less interest in research faculty careers
Diversophiles beware: With career choice factors taken into account, women and “under-represented” minorities with Ph.D.’s...
And apparently, according to Linda Rosen of Change the Equation, “We can’t fill our workforce with white males,” because they are a “diminishing population.”
Spencer Irvine at Accuracy in Academia has the story:
Feeding the STEM Myths
As we have reported, contrary to current wisdom, studies consistently show that there are more science, technology,...
This is not a joke.
Andrew Desiderio at The College Fix has the story:
That degree is a joke: You can minor in comedy at Emerson College
Boston’s Emerson College, the alma mater of comedy kings such as Jay Leno, is now offering its students the opportunity to minor in comedy.
According to a release...
These cases just keep on piling up:
Stephen Edwards at The College Fix has the story:
Football players plan to sue university for ‘shoddy’ sexual-assault investigation
Two University of New Mexico football players and another student plan to sue the school for how it investigated sexual-assault allegations against...
This is an update to this story. All of a sudden, the editors decided that the writer’s long running columns in both the Michigan Daily and The Michigan Review were a “conflict of interest.”
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
‘Michigan Daily’: We fired column...
“Wow, I never expected that!” said the federal government, who apparently do not have a single economist on staff.
Here’s more from the College Fix:
UC-San Diego researchers: 1.4 million jobs lost because of minimum-wage hikes
The federal minimum-wage hikes between 2007 and 2009 were accompanied by severe drops in the “employment-to-population ratio” for...
To summarize: “No.”
Dave Huber at The College Fix has the story:
Prof’s epic response to Ferguson-related exam delay request
It’s probably safe to assume to that Oberlin student Della Kurzer-Zlotnick was not prepared for her professor’s response when she asked him about delaying exams due to Ferguson-related stress.
Seemingly anointing herself a (white) spokesperson...
Damn the facts, let’s keep this legislation going!
Dave Huber at The College Fix has the story
NY Senator Gillibrand: ‘Yes means yes’ should go nationwide
New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is pushing to make affirmative consent laws — figuratively known as “only yes means yes” when engaging in any kind of sexual activity...
See, that’s how you deal with negative speech: you don’t silence it, you spread positive speech to take its place.
Kaitlin Mulhere at Inside Higher Ed has the story:
Yik Yak Take-Back
During the September sit-in, associate biology professor Geoff Holm knew faculty members who posted tried to spread some Colgate campus love on...
Glenn Reynolds at USA Today explains why claims of a “rape epidemic” just won’t go away despite so much evidence that there is no “epidemic”:
The great campus rape hoax
For months we’ve been told that there’s a burgeoning “epidemic” of rape on college campuses, that the system for dealing with campus rape is...
“If you can’t do, teach.”
Carl Ampanile at The New York Post reports:
Majority of city’s trainee teachers flunked literacy tests
How do you spell illiterate?
A majority of students training at scores of New York colleges to become teachers flunked a literacy test they have to pass to be licensed, new figures show.
The state...
We’ve just totally thrown “innocent until proven guilty” out the window, haven’t we?
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
Create a database of alleged rapists to make campus safer, group recommends
This sounds like another attempt at a “Hyde Park List.”
Vivian Nunez at the liberal student organization Generation Progress, noting that research...
Chelsea Gruenwald at The College Conservative proposes that, when it comes to rape, the real victims of victim blaming are male rape victims:
Rape Culture and the Real Victim Shaming
Last week actor Shia LaBeouf revealed that he was raped earlier this year during an art performance. The veracity of these claims are not...
Maybe the tides are turning in favor of free speech on campus.
Greg Piper at The College Fix has the story:
Michigan State stands up to speech bullies demanding George Will’s disinvitation
George Will won’t be disinvited from speaking at Michigan State University despite protests by some students and a petition drive, provoked by Will’s...
What would you do to get a bunch of angry college kids to leave after they crashed a party at your house?
Dave Huber at The College Fix has the story:
Penn president joins students in Ferguson protest
University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann ended up joining student protesters in a “die-in” yesterday after they...
But see, people are only willing to listen to statisticians when the statistics support their conclusions.
Greg Piper at the College Fix has the story:
Sexual-assault study authors disavow how their work is portrayed by activists
One of the more noteworthy parts of Emily Yoffe’s thorough analysis in Slate of the campus response to sexual-assault...
